The 25th anniversary of the world wide web will be celebrated around the globe this week.
The milestone will be marked on Wednesday, a quarter of a century since it was first proposed by British computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
For anybody under the age of 20 it is hard to imagine what life would be like without the web, which is not to be confused with the internet ”“ a massive chain of networks which the web uses.
But when Sir Tim first submitted his idea while working at Swiss physics laboratory, Cern, the response from his boss was the brief: “Vague, but exciting.”
But everyone knows that the internet didn’t really start fulfilling its full potential in life until it turned 17 and started producing LOLcatz.